Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said on Thursday he supports President Trump’s executive order to declassify files related to the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy.
“I think it’s a great move because they need to have more transparency in our government and he’s keeping his promise to have the government tell the truth to the American people about everything,” Kennedy, President Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, told reporters.
Kennedy has claimed that the CIA was involved in his uncle’s death.
“There is overwhelming evidence that the CIA was involved in his murder,” Kennedy said in a 2023 interview with John Catsimatidis on New York City radio station WABC 770. “I think it’s beyond a reasonable doubt at this point.”
RFK Jr. said his uncle was targeted due to his refusal to commit U.S. forces to Vietnam.
“When my uncle was president, he was surrounded by a military-industrial complex and intelligence apparatus that was constantly trying to get him to go to war in Laos, Vietnam, etc.,” Kennedy told Catsimatidis.
“He refused. He said that the job of the American presidency is to keep the nation out of war.”
For decades, the agency has denied any involvement in the assassination of John F. Kennedy and said Lee Harvey Oswald was not a CIA agent.
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of President John F. Kennedy, said on Thursday that Trump’s move to declassify the assassination documents was politically motivated.
“The truth is a lot sadder than the myth — a tragedy that didn’t need to happen. Not part of an inevitable grand scheme,” Schlossberg posted to social platform X.
“Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back,” he added. “There’s nothing heroic about it.”
